In the poem ‘Piano AND Drums’ Okara uses the drums to symbolize
- A. source of poetic inspiration
- B. traditional African ways of life
- C. the complex rhythms of human life
- D. festivals which are held annually
- E. the noisy pastimes of hunters.
David Diop’s poem ‘The Vultures’, ends in a
- A. denunciation of colonialism
- B. resignation to oppression
- C. vindication of apartheid
- D. renunciation of African culture
- E. proclamanation of hope.
In J.P Clarks ‘Abiku’ the word ‘threshold’ means
- A. a line separating the living from the dead
- B. a relic of Abiku's previous life
- C. a mark of a healthy stock
- D. the home of the living
- E. the home of the dead
The poem ‘Viaticum’ portrays a ritual preparation for
- A. life's journey
- B. a war dance
- C. wrestling match
- D. slaughtering cattle
- E. moonlight game
In the poem ‘The Vultures’, David Diop expresses his
- A. hope that African will triumph over colonialism
- B. hatred of Africans
- C. affections of the colonial masters
- D. love of forced romances
- E. hatred of women.
The mood expressed in ‘We Have Come Home’ by Lenrie Peters is that of
- A. hope and joy at one's return
- B. tension over the past and uncertainty of the future
- C. jubilation and a sense of achievement
- D. cautions optimism
- E. apprehension and defeat
When David Diop in ‘The Vultures’ says that ‘civilization kicked us in the face’ and ‘holy water slapped our cringing brows’, he is using
- A. slapstick
- B. a curse
- C. invective
- D. personification
- E. sacrilege.
In Soyinka’s ‘Abiku’, the statement, ‘The ripest fruit was saddest’, is an example of
- A. metaphysical conceit
- B. equivocation
- C. slasng
- D. a paradox
- E. a proverb
‘… like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise
From stream of sleep’.
The above lines from ‘Night Rain’ are intended to emphasize the fact that the speaker
- A. drank like a fishb
- B. took a heavy dose of sleeping pills
- C. slept with his belly facing upwards
- D. dreamt of fish in deep streams
- E. was suddenly roused from sleep.
‘Serrating down your back and front
Like beak of the sword-fish,
And both your ears, notched
As a bondsman to this house…’
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from J.P. Clark’s ‘Abiku’ is
- A. onomatopoeia
- B. synecdoche
- C. simile
- D. metaphor
- E. verismilitude.
In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare portrays the roman plebeians as
- A. fickle-minded
- B. strong-willed
- C. compassionate
- D. machiavellian
- E. enterprising.
‘Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;
And, we like friends, will straightway go together’.
This statement by Julius Caesar is an example of
- A. dramatic dialogue
- B. monologue
- C. mistaken identity
- D. dramatic irony
- E. paradox
Brutus: This is sleepy tune. O murd’rous slumber!
Layest thou the leaden mace upon my boy,
That plays the music? Gentle knave, good night.
‘Gentle knave’ refers to
- A. Lucius
- B. Cassius
- C. Portia
- D. Messala
- E. Lucuis
‘And for Mark Antony, think not of him;
For he can do no more of caesar’s arm
When caesar’s head is off’.
This means that Mark Antony
- A. will be assassinated with Caesar
- B. will become harmless once Caesar is dead
- C. is as powerless as Caesar's arm to control Caesar
- D. is as dangerous as Caesar's arm
- E. cannot do more harm as Caesar is capable of.
Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia’s appeal?
- A. Decius Brutus
- B. Lucius
- C. Cassius
- D. Portia
- E. Octavius.
The narrator in Mission to Kala is
- A. Mongo Beti
- B. Medza
- C. Mama
- D. Niam
- E. Zambo.
In Mission to Kala When Medza encounters Edima,
what strikes him about her is her
- A. ability to speak well
- B. confidence in her self
- C. slender figure
- D. aggressiveness
- E. childlike innicence
‘It was at this stage in the proceedings, before i had even had time to get my personal emotions quietened down a little-let alone sorted out-that my Helen, the real object of my mission, for whom i had been prepared to fight a second Troy before the walls of Kala, appeared on the scene.
In this passage from Mission to Kala, allusion is made to
- A. Brazilian legend
- B. Greek mythology
- C. French cosmology
- D. American history
- E. African folklore.
As Medza was getting near to his village on his way from Kala he drinks at the palm wine bar because
- A. because he wants to patronize the local drink
- B. he is very happy to return to his village
- C. he is very thirsty
- D. he wants to pick up courage to face his father
- E. his journey has been very successful.
A ‘gentleman’ in the sense in which it is used in Great Expectations is
- A. a man of wealth
- B. a chivalrous young man
- C. an educated man of some means
- D. a man who has inherited a fortune
- E. a man who lives in a big city.
The characters of Joe and Biddy are contrasted with those of Pip and Estella in order to show
- A. the advantages of formal education
- B. the advantages of simplicity, sincerity and true love
- C. the advantages of of sophisticated high-class living
- D. the difference between urban and rural people
- E. that constrast is an inevitable aspect of characterization in a novel.